Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-02-10
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An Odd Fellows lodge is being org
anized at Mmball.
Weasels are depopulating chicken
coops in Sioux Falls.
Yankton is excited over the prospect
Of railroad bridge.
Yankton German Catholics contemp-
late erecting church.
a postofflce has been Established at
Belmont, Douglas county.
1t is reported that water sells Get
tysburg at rs cents q barrel.
Dell Rapids had lls pupils enrolled
in its public schools in January.
Snow in the Black Hills is tho deep
est it has been for several winters.
The public schools at Woonsocket
have an enrolment of 100 scholars.
The electric light at Rapid City seems
to have lost its magnetic influence.
The farmers of Coleman will build
warehouse for the handling of grain.
The Yankton Cemetery association
cannot meet for the want of aquorum.
The hog market at Sioux Falls is
practically dead, for the want of hoga.
The farmers of Minnehaha county
will organize an alliance on the 18th.
The prevailing fever Of last summer
and fall at Ipswich has again broken
out.
Prohibition and temperance methods
are working their way into the Black
Hills.
The Cataract house a. Sioux Falls
will get $4,000 worth of improvements
in the spring.
Stocknen report that tho cattle and
horses on the range near Rapid City are
now in excellent condition.
The ex-saloonKeepers of Canton have
changed their places of business into
billiard hall and cigar stores.
Tho Bismarck penitentiary received
four new prisoners from Fargo and
now has but thirteen vacant cells.
The Forest City Press has changed
hands, Mr.. Bilz retiring and Messrs.
Buliard & Millikin succeeding him.
T. w. Blowfield, the publisher of
Echoes of the Sioux" is about to start
an overall and shirt factory in Sioux
Falls.
Lincoln county has $4,000 in its
treasury, fine court house and quar-
ter section OF land suitable for poor
farm.
In Deadwood a billiard room and
bowling alley has been opened that
will serve nothing stronger than hot
coffee.
| Grand Forks county supports eighty
six paupers on money allowances. 1t
will vote on the Sth on proposition to
buy poor farm.
A 4-months-old town is Deloraine, a
few miles north of Bottinau. 1t has
over 100 houses, seven stores, four
hotels and six stables.
Some beautiful mirages wero seen In
Villas the fore part Of the week. After
drinking tank water the people saw
Washington Hills, fifty miles west.
The children of Alexandria are suf-
fering or are recovering from some sort
of bronchial trouble. Although max
ing them quite i'll, none have been
dangerous.
Mouse river stockmen report cattle
thriving finely, not withstanding the
extreme cold. Hay in liberal quan.
titles is being fed, and the stock is in
excellent condition,
Mclean county is agitating the idea
Of funding its outstanding indebted
ness by the issuance OF bonds ut AZ to
per cent. interest. Its outstanding
debt amounts to $4,000.
The Hermosa Pilot states that the
county attorney and county superin.
tendent of Custer county have appealed
from the action of the board of county
commissioners in reducing their sala.
ries.
Department Commander Lucas has
written to members of the e. A. r. post
of Jamestown that the encamp
ment will be called for March
23d, an effort is now being made
to secure a greatly reduced railroad
rate.
The probabilities are that more land
will be bought for the Brookings agri
cultural college rs there are only eighty
acres surrounding the college. The at
tendance is increasing all the time and
the institution is in dourishing con
dition.
1t is authoritatively stated that the
Chicago. Milwaukee &St. Paul railroad
company will build branch from
Howard to Huron the coming season
Perhaps this will account for the rail
road iron which was put off at Howard
some time ago.
Ed. Smith, who is now confined IL
the Yankton county Jail for larceny, il
} known to the officers of the western
states and territories as bad one. H
is an innocent-looking vonth, and cal
command the English language snffici
entity to play soft tune on the tender
, cords of almost any hard-heartet
!. prairie pioneer.
, DIR. Crucial, of Fargo, has invented
J new well-siuking machine, whicl
J promises to rsvolutionize things.
has been some two years In course o
: construction. On trial few days az
. it bored through Ave feet of froze
} ground and down 100 feet inside q
+. four hours. The inventor claims tina
! it has pressure of IL. .ooO tons. and wi
: 60 through the hardest rock like SAINT